Software Engineering bots are applications able to react to external stimuli such as events triggered by tools or messages posted by users and run automated tasks in response, working as an interface between users and services. Bots often include conversational...
Open data is a wonderful idea, but we have already argued that all the public time and money invested in creating and publishing open data resources has a very minimal impact on our society. For instance, city halls complain that very few people use their open data...
As you all know, Open Source software (OSS) proposes a collaborative development model where the code is accessible and anyone can contribute. However, this very own collaborative nature becomes one of its main sources of problems, as developers abandoning the project...
The role of non-tech/non-coding contributors in Open Source Software (OSS) is poorly understood. Most of current research around OSS development focuses on the coding aspects of the project (e.g., commits, pull requests or code reviews) while ignoring the potential of...
Any important decision should be grounded on data. This is also true for any decision that affects your software projects. You shouldn’t reach any conclusion regarding the health of your project or the actions to take to improve it without a good look at the...
The success of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked substantial interest in the software engineering (SE) field to improve AI scalability and quality [1]. AI applications face common challenges in their SE processes [2]. Among those, they are hard to specify [3],...
